This Week’s Quote: “Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.” —Bruce Schneier

This Week’s Quote: “Even when an appeals court-sized decision is handed down, it probably won’t become cut and dried, because ‘Fair Use’ is one of those things, like pornography, we are meant to know when we see them.” —Neil Gaiman

This Week’s Quote: “This naïve manner of conceptualizing capitalism by reference to a ‘pursuit of gain’ must be relegated to the kindergarten of cultural history methodology and abandoned once and for all.” —Max Weber

This Week’s Quote: “Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn’t reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.” —Lawrence Lessig

This Week’s Quote: “It’s impossible to overstate how bonkers the idea of sabotaging cryptography is to people who understand information security…Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the ‘good guys’ are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security. You might as well skywrite it as encrypt it with pre-broken, sabotaged encryption.” —Cory Doctorow